Rugby-loving tots are try-ing and training, ready to kick-off at half-time for a Wasps match next month.

Youngsters from the Didi Rugby sessions, which offer classes for little ones across Hinckley and Burbage, will be doing a half-time pitch demonstration at the Wasps vs. Worcester game at the Ricoh arena on March 26.

The fun-loving classes have gone from strength to strength since they launched in May 2015, with the aim of inspiring little ones to get active.

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The company has grown from training just eight children to 800 children, and now works in partnership with the Rugby Union team Wasps, who play at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena. New classes are also popping up across the country.

Rugby-mad Vicky Macqueen, who runs Didi Rugby, said: “I started Didi Rugby because I wanted to inspire little ones to take up physical activity, and becoming a mum saw my belief in getting little ones active just get stronger!

“Classes are doing well. Some are full now so that’s brilliant but there are still a few spaces on our Saturday classes and some of our mid-week ones, so lots of chances for little ones to get involved.

Youngsters enjoying themselves playing Didi rugby and agility games at Hinckley Rugby Football Club and St Francis Centre.

“To see Didi Rugby growing and starting up new classes is brilliant to see. My vision is to see Didi Rugby in every county in Britain and ultimately global. If I can have a positive impact on children all over the world that would be awesome.

“My highlight has to be all the children doing their little Didi Rugby demonstration at the new Hinckley new rugby stadium’s opening day, with Eddie Jones coming to have a look and saying he thought it was fantastic.”

In the classes, Vicky and her team of fully-trained coaches help children to work on “their basic skills and the underlying components of fitness, such as balance, speed, agility and coordination.”

Vicky, who used to work in PE, says that they aim to help children to grow in confidence and to have lots of fun while they are active and working towards improving their fitness.